[Destro]

If this nation can elect a draft dodger you think the vast majority would hate Kerry for serving and trying to bring Americans home from a war that was unpopular? We need to defeat him on his record. Everytime we bring this up it makes our side look bad. None of our Republican candidates have seen combat and Cheney never served.

Kerry and Clark earned their 'Nam medals and Kerry had every right to demonstrate against the war. He earned that right and he did it in the open unlike Clinton who went off shore to protest. We need to get Clark and Kerry on the modern day issues. Clark and Kerry have to be defeated on ideas.

Kerry scares the White House and it should. Fight smart. This startegy of attack on this issue is bad one.

[Salvation]

You do have a valid point here.

However, a mindset from the past does not disappear from the present or infiltrate the future.

[Salvation]

"As a man thinketh, so is he."

[restornu]

I really wonder if they really did earn their medals or it was reward for being moles?

[Mo1]

Kerry and Clark earned their 'Nam medals and Kerry had every right to demonstrate against the war.

First .. Clark as more of a leg to stand on this issue then Kerry does on many levels

Second .. the fact that Kerry protest against this war is not the issue or why many Vietnam Vets are ticked off at him

It's the fact that instead of protesting against the government and the war .. He accused he fellow soldiers of being criminals ..

What Kerry did was spit on his fellow soldiers for what he said in his speech before Congress

Yes, I agree this should not be the focus of why Kerry shouldn't be elected .. But at the same time it can not be ignored

[RLK]

Kerry is mentally unstable. Anyone not as unstable as he is will recognize him as being so. The question is, is the general population healthy enough to perceive him for what his is. The answer is probably, no. It's as simple as that.

[NYCVirago]

If this nation can elect a draft dodger you think the vast majority would hate Kerry for serving and trying to bring Americans home from a war that was unpopular? We need to defeat him on his record. Everytime we bring this up it makes our side look bad. None of our Republican candidates have seen combat and Cheney never served.

Even if our side doesn't bring it up, their side will. But the thing is, they spent eight years telling us that being a draft dodger was no big deal (after all, if military service was so important for a candidate, why didn't these libs support Bush 41 or Dole?) Now the left will turn the other way. But I don't think it will work -- it's like when they told us Clinton's egregious sexual behavior was his private life, and then went after Arnold as a groper. Most voters yawned at the charges. I think it's the same thing on military service -- the libs have so inoculated people that it doesn't matter, that it's difficult to turn around claim it does now.